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NOVA framework discovers interpretable driver behavior models

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Researchers have developed NOVA, a symbolic regression framework designed to uncover interpretable models of driver behavior from trajectory data. Applied to millions of driving observations, NOVA identified a robust two-term acceleration model and achieved high accuracy in predicting car-following and lane-changing actions. The framework's discovered operators demonstrated strong zero-shot transferability between different freeway locations and significantly outperformed existing lane-change baselines. AI

IMPACT Introduces a novel framework for discovering interpretable AI models in complex domains like autonomous driving.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper detailing a new research framework and its evaluation.

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NOVA framework discovers interpretable driver behavior models

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Ishak Abassi, Nassim Ali Bouazzouni, Farah Ibelaiden, Nadir Farhi ·

    NOVA: Symbolic Regression Discovery of Interpretable Car-Following and Lane-Change Models with Driver Heterogeneity

    arXiv:2606.10583v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present NOVA, an autonomous symbolic regression framework that identifies interpretable car-following and lane-change structures from raw trajectory data with minimal behavioral priors. Applied to 4,765,788 active driving obser…

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Nadir Farhi ·

    NOVA: Symbolic Regression Discovery of Interpretable Car-Following and Lane-Change Models with Driver Heterogeneity

    We present NOVA, an autonomous symbolic regression framework that identifies interpretable car-following and lane-change structures from raw trajectory data with minimal behavioral priors. Applied to 4,765,788 active driving observations from the NGSIM I-80 and US-101 datasets, N…

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